LEO BUSCAGLIA

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

We all need each other.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.

I got the copyright for love!

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.

I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.